Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu, who frequently visited at … Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney, who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s … at the Rylands Library, Eng. MS. 618. On their return to Britain in 1787, the Piozzis continued to be sociable, hosting dinners for their still numerous acquaintances, inviting friends first to a rented house in Hanover Square, then to …
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